Allegory of the Cave and John Dewey

1) the shadows on the wall are only appearance

2) the vessels, statues, and figures of animals

3) the echo from the other side they think is a voice from a passing shadow

4) the objects which make the shadows are also appearances

5) the firelight is mistaken for sunlight

6) reflection of objects in the water

9) the life at the bottom of the cave

Reality is to be found outside the cave in the ideal objects of which the objects carried by the people above are only imitations, with the shadows being a further step away from reality. Instances of reality include:

2) the reality rather than the reflection

3) the ascent of the soul to the upper reaches

4) what the philosopher sees outside the cave

5) what the prisoner tells his compatriots when he returns

6) the fact that they do not believe him

7) that which is ascertained by reason

9) the ability of the philosopher to learn

10) the desire to rise to the upper reaches

Reality becomes appearance through the eyes, and two causes are given by Plato--coming out of the light or going into the light. The man who comes out of the light cannot see because he is not accustomed to the d

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rder that throwing and shooting may be more effective and significant, so ends add significance to actions. 3) The mariner sailing on the sea does not sail toward the stars, but he notes the stars and is aided by them in his sailing. 4) A port or harbor is his objective, and the port is the beginning of another mode of activity. We know this without thinking, that our "ends" are also beginnings. 5) Not all results are necessarily the aim of an action, and it is the end-thought-of that is uniquely important. 6) Ends may be regarded as literally ends to action and are then seen as frozen and isolated. 7) When Joshua got the sun to stand still, this served his desire by a miracle--that was his end. 8) Moral philosophers assume that the continuous course of events can be arrested at the point of a particular object and that the end may be justice or charity or professional achievement or something else identified as a good. 9) There is no such thing as the single, all-important end. 10) The end may be an action, a quality, an acquisition, or whatever is identified as a goal. In noting that there is no such thing as a final end, Dewey points to the moralist's statement that the end justifies the means, and he re
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